Announcing the OVO Poetry Series. Judge these books as beautiful or hideous, inspirational or horrifying, rather than true or false. Volume One is Raoul Vaneigem Selected Works 1962-1979 $1.99 for the Kindle at amazon.com Selections from the works of Raoul Vaneigem (1934 – present). Basic Banalities (1962), Some Theoretical Topics That Need To Be Dealt [...]
Recorded music realizes a dream of pure magic – but at the same time the end & even death of music itself. A Blakean paradox or mystical dialectic: every phenomenon had a “good” & a “bad” (in some rough sense), an Emanation & a Spectre. When I worked in radio (on WBIA-FM, The Moorish Orthodox [...]
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Trevor Blake: The Residents. 1990. Multiple name identities are co-incarnations, individuals who exist in more than one body at the same time. A few multiple name identities can be found in academia. Nicholas Bourbaki has written several influential papers on mathematics since 1935. A number of men were Nicholas Bourbaki. The theologian Franz Bibfeldt was [...]
First published as Self-Theory: the Pleasure of Thinking For Yourself. United States 1975, The Spectacle. Reprinted by OVO in 1989. This booklet is for people who are dissatisfied with their lives. If you are happy with your present existence, we have no argument with you. However… If you are tired of waiting for your life [...]
Personifying happiness as a hard-won philosophical stance in what Leigh proudly calls an “anti-miserablist film” [How many people besides me understand what 'miserablism' is a reference to? It isn't situationist.] ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’: At Last, The Sunny Side of Hollywood – washingtonpost.com
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